Use a VPN from country that is hostile to the one you are living in. This way your own country won’t spy on you.
replyPeople tend to worry about other countries, but it is usually within the country they live in that they have to worry about their rights being infringed.
I've been working through my options per digital freedom, human dignity, and non-double-taxation as a US citizen. It's a depressingly short list.
replyThe real use case for satellite-borne data centers.
replyI fail to see how a satellite data center would fix this unless the company was entirely off planet
replyHell, the whole company could be located on that satellite if it transacts in crypto-currency.
replyDespite the hype, crypto is traceable. It is harder than other currencies and one transaction is probably untraceable. However if you are running a business you are going to get repeated payments from customers and repeatedly pay your employees and suppliers, which in turn creates enough data that they can track you down.
replyMullvad accepts Monero (XMR), the most private and untraceable coin available today. Your point is correct for all others though.
replyIs it possible to obtain Monero without a trail leading back to a KYC crypto purchase, other than buying bitcoin off a guy in person with physical cash?
replyMullvad will accept envelopes of cash. They go far and above any other company when it comes to helping their customers maintain anonymity.
replyWhere do the people live…
replyThis wouldn't work for companies that require humans for now.
replyNot possible. If all jurisdictions relinquish their claim over the satellite then it's open to being shot down.
replyThe proliferation of space access goes both ways. LEO isn't exactly difficult to reach (many college teams can do it). GEO might work but then you need relays and any relay satellite are essentially tacitly complicit.
Satellite (and most aerospace related technologies) are glass cannons. They aren't defensible like a bunker or a tank.
What if you had lots and lots and lots of them? Maybe even enough to cause debris problems if they were attacked. With relays into countries that don't overreach their privacy laws.
replySatellites are very reliant on ground ops. Its much like crypto. You think all your stuff is in space, but the FBI agent has a wrench and will just break your kneecaps until you let him in. But also the FBI agent will pull your operating permit for the country your ground stations are in and take you offline.
replyIceland.
replyHow has no one mentioned the Sealand micro nation off the UK?
replyIt's not relevant. The moment criminality (in the view of other nations with these kinds of laws) hosts itself there, they'll find themselves hauled in front of the UK courts, and find that their "micro nation" isn't recognised and that the UK both claims jurisdiction over them and is able to enforce it.
replyThe gang gets used as target practice for a Tomahawk missile.
replyHow does Mullvad do it? They also have Canadian servers.
replySwitzerland? Although they’re attempting to close in on this there too.
replyDidn't proton end up moving to Germany because of bad Swiss privacy laws?
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